Vol. 37 No. 5 (2021): September – October 2021

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Pak J Med Sci Vol.37, No.5 2021

Published: 2021-06-28

Guest Editorial

  • Women in Surgical Fields; Time to break the Glass Ceiling Women in surgical fields

    Tayyaba Gul Malik
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4583

  • Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act: Facts and Fictions

    Zahid Kamal, Muhammad Aleem, Nauman Aziz, Hafiz Muhammad Amjad
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4551

  • Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome roots needs to be rooted out at the outset: Will early screening help?

    Sikandar Hayat Khan, Uzma Arooj
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4509

  • Moral Injury, Emotional Labor and Burnout: An Unbearable Burden for Health Professionals

    Chaudhry Aqeel Safdar, Rashid Qayyum
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4794

  • Burden of VSD associated aortic valve cusp prolapse with aortic regurgitation and the impact of early surgery on clinical outcomes in South Asia

    Sahrai Saeed, Yaso Emmanuel
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4845

Original Articles

  • Ramadan Fasting: Perception and maternal outcomes during Pregnancy

    Nazli Hossain, Mahwish Samuel, Saba Mughal, Kashif Shafique
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4109

  • The challenge of Burnout in Public Medical Teachers in Pakistan: A mixed methods study

    Ali Madeeh Hashmi
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4429

  • Non-operative treatment versus appendectomy for acute uncomplicated appendicitis: A randomized controlled trial

    Muhammad Nadeem Sajjad, Dr, Fatima Naumeri, Sehrish Hina, Dr
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4016

  • The clinical characteristics and underlying causes of liver damage in patients with COVID-19 infection: Retrospective analysis

    Guojin Zuo, Weirong Liu
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4161

  • Radiological profile of patients undergoing Chest X-ray and computed tomography scans during COVID-19 outbreak

    Sohail Ahmed Khan, Murli Manohar, Maria Khan, Samita Asad, Syed Omair Adil
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4290

  • Perceptions of Lady Health Workers and their trainers about their curriculum for implementing the interventions identified for Essential Package of Health Services for Pakistan

    Shaherzad Sohail, Dr, Gohar Wajid, Dr, Saima Chaudhry, Dr
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4175

  • Vaginal discharge during pregnancy and associated adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes

    Dr. Meharunnissa Khaskheli, Dr Shahla Baloch, Dr Aneela Sheeba Baloch, Syed Ghulam Sarwar Shah
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4187

  • Predictive factors of treatment success in two-dose methotrexate regimen in ectopic tubal pregnancy: A retrospective study

    Caglar Helvacioglu, Keziban Doğan
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4299

  • Clinical outcome of right ventricle outflow tract management for repair of Tetralogy of Fallot with three contemporary surgical strategies

    Tariq Waqar, M. Zubair Ahmed Ansari, Kamran Khan
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3961

  • Is Telemedicine our cup of tea? A nationwide cross-sectional survey regarding doctors’ experience and perceptions

    Laima Alam, Mafaza Alam, Amina Mannan Malik, Varqa Faraid
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3970

  • Etiology of Hydronephrosis in adults and children: Ultrasonographic Assessment in 233 patients

    Sultan Abdulwadoud Alshoabi, Dahhan Saleh Alhamodi, Mohammed Ali Alhammadi, Abdullah Fahad Alshamrani
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3951

  • Vincristine induced neurotoxicity in children who underwent chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia and Wilms tumor

    Muhammad Kamran Adil, Zulfiqar Ali, Uzma Arshad, Usman Fawad
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4169

  • Frequency of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus and its associated risk factors

    Shaista Kanwal, Tahir Ghaffar, Azizul Hasan Aamir, Khalid Usman
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4211

  • Clinical outcomes of Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors in patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: An observational study from Pakistan

    Bhagwan Das, Aisha Sheikh, Bilal Ahmed, Najmul Islam
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3901

  • Clinical value of SMI Combined with Low-Dose CT Scanning in differential diagnosis of Thyroid Lesions and Tumor Staging

    Shao-wei Xue, Yu-kun Luo, Zi-yu Jiao, Lin Xu
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4144

  • Outcome of proximal femur shaft fractures in school going children treated with locking compression plates

    Faaiz Ali Shah, Mian Amjad Ali, Naeemullah .
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3938

  • The practice of Burch Colposuspension versus Mid Urethral Slings for the treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence in developing country

    Saida Abrar, Lubna Razzak, Raheela Mohsin Rizvi
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4017

  • The effect of Thyroid Autoimmunity on Dyslipidemia in patients with Euthyroid Hashimoto Thyroiditis

    Hasret Cengiz, Taner Demirci, Ceyhun Varım, Ali Tamer
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3883

  • Long-term outcome of Non-Transecting Anastomotic Bulbar Urethroplasty for Urethral Strictures: An 8-year experience from Liaquat National Hospital Karachi

    Aziz Abdullah, Professor, Syed Farhan Ahmed, Imran Idrees Memon
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3879

  • Induced pluripotent stem cells derived cardiomyocytes from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patients in vitro

    Fareeha Faizan Ghori, Mohsin Wahid
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3104

  • Study on the correlation between Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Coronary Artery disease in the very elderly patients with hypertension

    Jian-hua Sun, Xiao-kun Liu, Qi Zhang, Qing-hua Zhang
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4135

  • Postnatal causes and severity of persistent pulmonary Hypertension of Newborn

    Muhammad Sohail Arshad, Mudasser Adnan, Hafiz Muhammad Anwar-ul-Haq, Arif Zulqarnain
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.2218

  • Atorvastatin calcium tablets on inflammatory factors, hemorheology and renal function damage indexes in patients with diabetic nephropathy

    Ronghua Li, Tianting Shi, Enpeng Xing, Hongcui Qu
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4045

  • Demographic profile and clinical picture of patients presented with Paraphenylene Diamine (PPD)/ Kala Pathar poisoning at a District Teaching Hospital

    Sheraz Akbar, Zahid Kamal Siddiqui, Rana Aamir Diwan, Muhammad Hassam Rehm
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4251

  • Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of medical students

    Nadia Saeed, Nismat Javed
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4177

  • Effect of Oxycodone hydrochloride combined with Dexmedetomidine on quality of recovery and stress response after general anesthesia in patients who had Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

    Guo-rui Wang, Qian Wu, Wen-ping Liu, Yu-mo Jing
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3959

  • Serum Immunoglobulin E and Serotonin levels in Chronic Supporative Otitis Media Patients with and without treatment

    Shafaque Mehboob Khan, SM Tariq Rafi, MS Mehjabeen Mehjabeen, Hurtimania Khan
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.2414

  • Higher frequency of Congenital Hypothyroidism among Newborns, District Dera Ghazi Khan-Punjab, Pakistan: A case control study

    Abdul Rehman Khokhar, Abdul Majeed Cheema
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4086

  • Effectiveness of Chlorhexidine and Metronidazole Gels in the management of gingivitis. A clinical trial

    Maryam Panhwar, Shazia Perveen Rajpur, Eisha Abrar, Mansour Alqutub, Tariq Abduljabbar
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4236

  • Effect of Anti-Hp treatment on nutritional status of children with Helicobacter Pylori-Positive Gastritis and its clinical significance

    Na-ying Zuo, Yuan-da Zhang, Qing-wei Dong, Jing Bi, Xiao Liu
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4234

  • Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in COVID-19: A cheap prognostic marker in a resource constraint setting

    Kaleem Ullah Toori, Muhammad Arsalan Qureshi, Asma Chaudhry, Muhammad Farhan Safdar
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4194

  • Comparison of safety and number of post-operative visits of patients in convenient day versus conventional first day follow-up after phacoemulsification

    Zahid Kamal, Ahmad Zeeshan Jamil, Hira Shuja Khokhar, Farah Huma
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4121

  • Celiac disease is increased in esophageal squamous cell Carcinoma

    Bilgehan Omer Poyrazoglu, Ahmet Cumhur Dulger
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.2757

  • Effectiveness of mechanical traction in supine versus prone lying position for lumbosacral radiculopathy

    Rehan Ramzan Khan, Saima Riaz, Sajid Rashid, Muhammad Sulman
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4200

  • Efficacy analysis of combined detection of 5 Serological Tumor markers including MIF and PIVKA-II for early diagnosis of Primary Hepatic Cancer

    Li Huan
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4264

  • Aphasia-Diagnostic Challenges and Trends: Speech-Language Pathologist’s Perspective

    Faiza Badar, Ms., Sajida Naz, Dr., Nazia Mumtaz, Dr., Muhammad Naveed Babur, Dr., Ghulam Saqulain, Dr.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.2314

  • Comparison of rapid and conventional methods for investigating of mecA presence in Staphylococcus Species

    Selim Görgün, Hacer İşler, MD, Mehmet Cenk Turgut, MD
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4274

  • Frequency and assessment of Nutritional Status of school going children in rural areas of Islamabad

    Shehla Farhin, Tamkeen Jaffry, Sadia Zafar, Farah Rashid
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3773

  • Effect of Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) on the immunity, physical status and clinical effect of locally advanced NSCLC patients

    Jun-kai Xu
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4188

  • Behaviors of Turkish pregnant women towards gestational diabetes screening

    Hüseyin Aydoğmuş, Serpil Aydoğmuş, Halil Ibrahim Tıraş, Zeynep Cankaya
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4176

  • Comparison of the effectiveness of novel intervention on restricted range of motion of shoulder in young healthy subjects

    Keramat Keramat Ullah, M. Naveed Babur
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3465

  • Guiding significance of intraoperative frozen section for range of judging incisal edge of Esophageal Carcinoma

    Fei He, Chen Wang, Weichao Liu, Gongning Shi
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3910

  • Optical Coherence Tomography based indices in predicting functional outcomeof macular hole surgery: A retrospective chart review

    Haroon Tayyab, Rehman Siddiqui, Sana Jahangir, Shiraz Hashmi
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4126

  • Levels of anti-oxidative molecules and inflammatory factors in patients with vascular dementia and their clinical significance

    Fan-xing Qi, Ying Hu, Ya-wei Li, Juan Gao
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3854

  • Is pseudomyopia associated with anxiety and related disorders?

    Halil Kara, Erdogan Yasar, Ugur Gurlevik
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3991

  • Complications of Cochlear Implant Surgery: A Public Implant Centre Experience

    Jawwad Ahmed, Dr., Ghulam Saqulain, Dr., Muhammad Iqbal Javed Khan, Dr., Mobeen Kausar, Dr.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.3960

  • Characteristics, risk factors and outcomes of gastrointestinal hemorrhage in COVID-19 patients: A meta-analysis

    Jie Chen, Ying Hang
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4351

Special Communications

  • The history of surgery and surgical training in the UK

    Thomas Payne, Joseph D. Toms, Ahsan Zaidi, Sri G. Thrumurthy
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4628

Brief Communication

Case Reports

  • Internal Hernia in Pregnant Woman due to Congenital Transmesenteric Defect

    Yuansheng Xu, Yi Wang, Jinyan Fang
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4116

Correspondence

  • Bilingual Aphasia Test in Urdu and its Clinical Implications

    Nadir Ali, Muhammad Shaban Rafi
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.37.5.4572